The old campus of Jiangcheng No. 1 Middle School.

After Cheng He heard the wine saint say the intention of the four major families, he was ready to get up and deal with them.

"Jiang Ming, do you want to come with us?" asked Cheng He.

Jiang Ming sneered: "Don't, I know that they are looking for me, and I still come forward, am I sick in the brain?"

"You mean, you don't go by yourself, and you want me to help you carry it?" Cheng He's tone was a little difficult when he said this.

"Isn't that possible?" replied Jiang Ming "innocently".

Cheng He's face stiffened: "Do you dare to be more shameless?"

"Yes," Jiang Ming said naturally, "but do you dare to see it?"

"......" Cheng Heliang said for a long time, "Senior Wine Saint, Hongyi, let's go!"

Jiang Ming smiled and watched the three of them leave, and then slowly walked towards the Linjiang Immortal Hotel.

Through the soul imprint on the old man Chen Renmei, he knew that he still had a good show to watch, which was an appetizer before meeting with the four major families.

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Linjiang Xian dark shop kitchen.

The old man Chen Renmei was cleaning a domestic duck with a kitchen knife, and the blade was at the junction of the duck's neck and body, and it slid slightly, causing a clear sound of knives and bones.

Then, the blade descends, and the flesh that exposes the skin of the duck is gently pushed forward, and the fresh pink duck meat separates from the bones with the white fascia.

The duck body is reversed, and the large spine that has been peeled off is pressed against the cutting board. With a crisp sound, the spine fell. The tip of the knife kept going, and it cut the upper wings of the duck along the bone, without breaking a trace of the duck skin.

Continue to dig deeper and cut out the white fascia-encased joints. Gently lift the kitchen knife, the blade against the joint, turn the blade, and slip out of a circle with a crisp sound. With a slight push of his hand, the wing bones of the upper wings came down.

Dig your hand into the neck, dig out the duck's thigh, and cut off the thigh bone according to the method of cutting the wing bone.

Since then, the deboning of the duck has been completed.

The old man stuffed the washed pigeons into the ham, shiitake mushrooms and bamboo shoots. Once stuffed, blanch to remove the smell.

Next, the duck is turned over to form the flesh in the skin. After entering the water to remove the smell, turn it back and stuff in the ham, shiitake mushrooms and bamboo shoots.

Then stuff the pigeon, expose the pigeon's head, enter the water and scald again. After this step, turn the duck over, blanch it like a wild duck to remove the fish, and stuff it with ham.

Finally, the wild duck that holds the pigeon is stuffed into the belly of the domestic duck, and the heads of the three birds are all in one place, and the water is scalded to remove the fish.

Once blanched, put it in a casserole, add the shallots and ginger slices, and add the prepared stock.

Old man Chen covered the pot, put the casserole into the steamer, steamed it over high heat, and after four or five hours, three sets of nourishing and delicious ducks were ready.

Old Man Chen looked at the dishes in the steamer and muttered to himself: "Stinky boy, I really let you say it." When people come to play, it's really me who compares with others. If you lose, you still have to seal the knife. You crow's mouth!"

Time goes back to Jiang Ming after leaving Linjiang Immortal.

Old Man Chen came to the reception hall of the dark store and saw Tang Shijie, the grandson of the one-eyed Tang, who was the same as the twenty or thirty-year-old one-eyed Tang in Old Man Chen's memory.

Big hands and feet, slightly upright belly, round face, honest and stubborn.

As soon as Old Man Chen wanted to say a few polite words, Tang Shijie spoke first. asked to try his cooking skills with Mr. Chen to avenge his grandfather's blindness.

Moreover, whoever loses will not be able to cook for the rest of his life.

After Tang Shijie finished talking about the challenge, Old Man Chen did not immediately agree, but talked about his festival with the one-eyed Tang.

"Back then, your father and I cooked on the same street, because we both did well, and we both made Huaiyang dishes, which were often compared by good things.

At that time, your father and I were young and vigorous, and we looked down on each other. After all, 'there is no first in literature, no second in martial arts', where can you not be arrogant with a knife, you think you are the first.

However, we twist each other, and in the end, there is no big enmity, and the bad is in that competition.

I won, your lord lost. If you lose, you lose, why do you have to buckle your eyes.

Forget it, don't talk about it, it's easy to talk a lot when people get old. Young man, your father and I were originally in a battle of will, are you still willing to put yourself on board?"

"I salute you and call you senior, but you think it's a battle of will, that's because you won, if you lose, do you still say this?" Tang Shijie spoke, with hatred in his eyebrows.

Obviously, he has heard about his grandfather's festival with Old Man Chen many times, maybe he heard it since he was a child.

Although Old Man Chen knew that he couldn't persuade him, he couldn't help but give it a try.

In fact, what Tang Shijie said is also reasonable, the one-eyed Tang is irritable and irritable, but what he said just now does mean something cool.

Old Man Chen nodded: "Since that's the case, let's compare, but I won't play, I'll let my apprentice go." Of course, if he loses, I'll still seal the knife. ”

"You deliberately let me?" Tang Shijie furrowed his thick eyebrows, feeling unpleasant to be despised for him.

Old Man Chen was noncommittal.

Tang Shijie snorted: "It's up to you." ”

He is here to take revenge, and Old Man Chen takes the initiative to let him, so he will naturally not be polite.

"Well," Old Man Chen pointed at Fang Yu, "You go!"

"Okay, Master Chen. ”

Fang Yu naturally wouldn't say anything humble at this time.

You have to be confident in front of your opponent, and if you coax you, you will be scolded to death by the old man.

Fang Yu said loudly: "How can you compare?"

Confident has a confident look.

"Compare the three, soup, and the other two are up to you," Tang Shijie said calmly, "Anyway, no matter how you compare, I will win!"

"Okay!" Fang Yu also calmed down, "I hope you have the tone to say big things, and you also have the ability to bring it back." ”

"What about the referee?" asked Old Man Chen

Tang Shijie pointed at Old Man Chen: "You." ”

Old Man Chen was stunned for a moment, thinking that you are really here to take revenge, not to deliver food, how can you invite your opponent to be the referee.

"That's right, it's you," Tang Shijie's tone was very affirmative, "My grandfather said that although he gave it to you, he still agrees with your character." ”

"Oh?" asked Old Man Chen with interest, "what did he say?" ”

"My grandfather said, 'Old Chen's deflated three ......'"

"Stop, I don't want to hear it. ”

Old Man Chen stopped Tang Shijie with black lines on his head and didn't let him continue, which was not a good thing to say at the beginning.

"Since you and your lord trust me so much, then I naturally won't harm you," Old Man Chen smiled, "I admit it if I lose, this feeling of 'the back waves of the Yangtze River pushing the front waves' is not bad, which proves that the future is terrifying!"

"My grandfather didn't trust you, he only knew that you were a person who wanted to save face," Tang Shijie paused, as if recalling, maybe the one-eyed Tang scolded Old Man Chen too much, and he couldn't remember it for a while, "By the way, when I came, my grandfather told me to rest assured, saying that you won't come to the black whistle, because you can't afford to lose that person." ”

Old Man Chen couldn't cry or laugh, and he didn't let the Tang family kid say the original words before he said it, otherwise even if I won today, I would have to vomit a few mouthfuls of blood.

But at this point, Old Man Chen has roughly figured out Tang Shijie's temper, he is a stubborn but somewhat cautious person, and he is not a bad boy in general.

In this way, Old Man Chen felt that it was difficult again, because Tang Shijie had to seal the knife if he lost, and he was a little unbearable.

But if it is said that he was deliberately sentenced to win, it is also impossible. Fang Yu is also a good boy! he can't be wronged.

Thinking about it, Old Man Chen planned to make a draw with a thin mud.

"We don't make those false things, let's compare the kitchen ourselves, not for outsiders to see, let's start the game now." Old Man Chen waved his hand, even if the start bell of the game rang.

"Good. ”

"Hmm. ”

After two responses, Fang Yu took Tang Shijie and prepared to walk into the back kitchen of the dark store.

But at this moment, the unexpected happened. Fang Yu took two steps and suddenly fell to the ground.

"It hurts, my stomach hurts! it hurts~"

Fang Yu groaned in pain, and his forehead was immediately covered with beads of sweat the size of beans.

"What's going on, where does it hurt, stomach, intestines, or somewhere else?" Old Man Chen thought that Fang Yu had a stomach problem, and it was more serious, he only thought of appendicitis.

(Chefs are prone to stomach problems because meals are not at meals)

"Stomach ......" Fang Yu opened his mouth with difficulty, his lips suddenly turned black, as if he had been poisoned, and then fainted.

Old Man Chen looked at Tang Shijie, who was honest in appearance.

"It's not me, I don't have a chance, I haven't touched him. Tang Shijie did not try his best to defend himself, but only said that he had no conditions to start. He made it clear that the rest was not convincing, after all, he had a motive and was the most suspicious.

"Well, now it's important to call an ambulance. Old Man Chen noticed that Fang Yu was suspected of being poisoned, and after he was furious, he forced himself to calm down, he knew very well that what Tang Shijie said was true.

Tang Shijie nodded, helped Old Man Chen pick up Fang Yu, and walked out, when a person ran in front of him, panicked.

Old Man Chen took a closer look and found that it was a chef from Linjiang Xianming Restaurant.

I only heard him say: "Master Chen, you are okay, it is really good?"

"Why do you say that, what happened?" Old Man Chen suddenly felt that something was not good.

Really.

The chef said, "Master Chen, after lunch, we are ready to eat, and we are halfway through lunch." Both the chef and the chefs and apprentices suddenly collapsed and said that their stomachs hurt and their mouths were black.

The manager called and took them to the hospital. I'm here to see if you're okay. ”

"Then why are you okay?" Old Man Chen glanced at the cook coldly.

The chef was not scared at all, his original panicked appearance was gone, and the whole person seemed to have changed: "Because the poison was caused by me, this is obvious!"

"You're not Linjiang Xian's chef!" Old Man Chen didn't dare to pat his chest and pack the ticket, but he was absolutely confident that Linjiang Xian didn't have a mole.

This person is definitely a fake outsider.

"It's not important," the chef said slowly, "The important thing is that the lives of all the poisoned chefs in Linjiang Immortal are in my hands. ”

"What do you want? If you want my life, I'll give it to you. Old Man Chen said resolutely.

The fake chef said: "I don't want your life, I just want you to compete with this person named Tang Shijie." If you win, I'll give you the antidote. ”

Tang Shijie pursed his lips at this time, as if he had decided something.

However, the fake chef continued: "Tang Shijie, don't think about admitting defeat, I also gave this poison to your grandfather."

Don't doubt it, I can do it, and if you don't believe it, you can call.

It's the same, you win to get the antidote. Your grandfather also has my people by his side, which is enough to ensure that the antidote can be taken in time.

Don't even think about a draw, then I won't give any antidote.

How about it, choose, who wins and who loses, but how to choose is to die.

It's funny to think about, haha~"

Tang Shijie's eyes widened angrily, and he just wanted to blow this guy's dog head with one punch, but he had to endure it. After picking up the mobile phone and dialing, I talked for a while, and knew that what the fake chef said was true.

And it is obvious that he came prepared, not only knowing when he was looking for Chen Renmei to compare the kitchen, but also knowing where his hometown is.

Old Man Chen was also very aware of this, and struggled in his heart, and finally gave up the idea of persuading Tang Shijie to admit defeat.

No matter how many chefs are poisoned here, they can't compare to his grandfather in Tang Shijie's heart. Other people's lives are fate, but his grandfather is not?

The majority is better than the minority, such bastard words, Old Man Chen feels ashamed when he thinks about it.

"I agreed. ”

"I said yes. ”

Tang Shijie and Old Man Chen glanced at each other, and each other's eyes were helpless.

"So, let's get started now!"

"Wait a minute, I'm going to send Fang Yu to the hospital first. ”

"No, he can't die, the real time of death is twelve hours later.

As for the hospitals, sorry, they don't have an antidote, only we have it.

Gastric lavage is also useless, and the medicine is digested directly into the body.

Don't even think about calling the police, then we will be very scared, and maybe we will take some means that you can't accept to ensure our own safety. ”

Old Man Chen smiled bitterly, this is a dead end.